Digital storytelling with the ability to have text, audio, video, or doodle commentary on each slide. You must have a VoiceThread account in order to create or comment.
You can set preferences to allow others to comment as well. VoiceThread is an interesting, easy to use web-based environment for digital storytelling and there is an education portal.
Langwitchesdescribes how she used it with her students and how to get started.
Here is a page with instructions on how to create a voki (without registering for an account) and submitting that informatoin via a form to the teacher for subsequent embedding. This project was for middle school language arts, where students had the avatar speak their poems. Voki can also be useful for English language learners.
Watch movies at Xtranormal's website or YouTube channel to get an idea of the product. Can be made in the web-based environment or in STATE (download required)
Selected Authoring Environments by Alphabetical order
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Animoto
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Hillsboro Elementary
The hunger games
Le Petit Prince
Animoto has an education account.
Blabberize
Blabberizing about planets - the student researched the planet and then narrated from first person
Using blabberize to introduce a research project
Glogster
Glogster has an EDU service
Browse the Glogs
This handout will walk you through some of the key features of Glogster:
How?: Here are some examples of how language teachers are using Glogster in their classes:
All About Me Project (Spanish) Note that students can include their own voices!
Music In Spanish & Italian Teachers could use it to create extra credit activities, "culture capsules," or collections of materials that students can use for practice outside of class.
Linguistics Poster (University Level)Glogster can be useful for helping university students prepare research for poster sessions at conferences
Ludwig Van Beethoven Project (German) Students can use it to demonstrate their learning in the target language-the next few links are all "famous person projects" in different languages
Les freres lumieres (French)
Nicolas Guillen (Spanish)
Practice Your German Could be a great project for FL week!
Very Clever Use of Food Wouldn't these make GREAT writing prompts?!
What I Like About Me 1 and What I Like About Me 2
Go Animate
The Merchant of Venice:GoAnimate.com: Shakespeare interview and globe. by leslieireland
Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
Prezi
Power of storytelling on Prezi
Playing to Learn Prezi
Explore more prezis
Storybird
The Way to Yonder by insomnamama on Storybird
Browse the online storybird books
Free class account for teachers
Voicethread
Browse the voicethreads.
Voicethread has an edu account
Digital storytelling with the ability to have text, audio, video, or doodle commentary on each slide. You must have a VoiceThread account in order to create or comment.
You can set preferences to allow others to comment as well. VoiceThread is an interesting, easy to use web-based environment for digital storytelling and there is an education portal.
Langwitchesdescribes how she used it with her students and how to get started.
This quick start guide can get you started and this tutorial is well done.
Like VoiceThread? Here is a VoiceThread Ning you could consider joining!
Think VoiceThreads is a wiki created by educators on the PBwiki platform - great ideas there too!
VoiceThread in Education is a presentation with many examples and ideas.
Voki
Examples:
High School book talk vokis
Vokis in science -students created vokis to review material (this page has the instructions, look at the menu on the left for the links to the vokis)
German example
A teacher of Japanese created this voki
Here is a page with instructions on how to create a voki (without registering for an account) and submitting that informatoin via a form to the teacher for subsequent embedding. This project was for middle school language arts, where students had the avatar speak their poems. Voki can also be useful for English language learners.
Voki has a Voki for Education area
Xtranormal
Watch movies at Xtranormal's website or YouTube channel to get an idea of the product. Can be made in the web-based environment or in STATE (download required)
EDU portal available.